Package firefox-certificate_patrol: Information

Source package: firefox-certificate_patrol

Version: 2.0.14-alt2.1

Build time:  Nov 8, 2013, 02:52 PM in the task #107422

Copied in the task: #108248

Category: Networking/WWW

Gear: https://git.altlinux.org/gears/f/firefox-certificate_patrol.git?…

Home page: https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/certificate-patrol/

License: MPL 1.1

Summary: Certificate Patrol extension for Firefox

Description: 

Web browser trusts a lot of certification authorities and chained
sub-authorities, and it does so blindly.

The root CAs can delegate permission to issue certificates to an
unlimited amount of subordinate CAs (SCA) just by signing their
certificate, and everyone can even buy such a CA from GeoTrust or
elsewhere.

It is unclear how many intermediate certification authorities
really exist, and yet each of them has "god-like power" to
impersonate any https web site using a Man in the Middle (MITM)
attack scenario.

Certificate Patrol add-on reveals when certificates are updated,
so you can ensure it was a legitimate change.

List of RPM packages built from this SRPM:
firefox-certificate_patrol (noarch)

Maintainer: Nikolay A. Fetisov